Delays

This past week I went on a trip out to Oregon and Washington.  I went out to visit my teammate Josh who went to PNG with me and I helped with a Youth Encounter event in Seattle.  Along the way I was able to visit some other friends.  It was so great to see people I hadn't seen in so long.

To get out there I chose to take the Greyhound.  I have taken the Greyhound before so it wasn't anything new to me.  However, this experience was a lot different then before.

The whole Greyhound part of the trip consisted of one delay after another.  It become a very frustrating process, but it was out of my control and there was nothing that I could do about it.

God has the way of using whatever He can to try to get a point across.  This time He chose to use this trip to teach me about giving up control and to trust more in His timing. 

As I have stated before, ever since I came back from PNG the first time I felt God was calling me back there.  It took about four year for me to figure out in what way God was calling me back there, but as I look back I realize it was a lot of me trying to figure it out and not me letting God reveal it to me.

Now that God has revealed it to me I have found myself still not fully giving control over to Him and trusting that the things I need will be provided when I need them.  I've come into some delays when it comes to reaching the financial goals that I have and recently I have been very discouraged by them, but after this trip I have realized that God has been using this time to teach me to trust in Him so much more then I have been.

So even though the delays from this past trip were frustrating at the time, I am so thankful for them if God needed to use them to get the point across to me.  And I know that the financial delays that I am going through now are just that, delays.  God will provide in His timing and not mine.